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2000 Race For Cancer Cure

About 2,000 people, including spectators and racers, attended the 15th annual Susan G. Komen Coeur d'Alene Race for the Cure on Sunday morning on the North Idaho College campus. (Press photo: Devin Heilman)

Michael Dobler and his wife, Hanna, stood at the start line on the North Idaho College campus and stretched their arms and legs. Michael wore a string of pink beads and Hanna rocked a pink tutu with a pink shirt that read, “Boobie brigade.” The Coeur d’Alene couple smiled and didn’t take themselves too seriously Sunday morning before the 15th annual Susan G. Komen Coeur d’Alene Race for the Cure, but the issue at the core of the race, fighting breast cancer, drummed up some serious support. “We’re running to find a cure, and for my grandma, Mary, who passed,” Hanna said. “My father’s running also, who had cancer as well,” Michael said. “My father’s a survivor”/Devin Heilman, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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